Improved fruit-knife and nut-pick



UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

GEORGE MAYLAND, OF

BROOKLYN, NEW YORK..

Specitication forming part of Letters Patent No. 48,194, dated June 13, 1865.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE MAYLAND, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Combined Fruit-Knife and Nut-Pick; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and eXactdescription thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part ot' this specification, in which- Figure l is a longitudinal section of my invention with the knife-blade and nut-pick in au open state; Fig. 2, a side View ofthe same with the blade and pick in a closed state.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts.

This invention consists in combining a fruitknife blade with a nut-pick in one and the same handle, and with a single spring, arranged in such a manner that the blade and pick will be at opposite sides ot' the spring and at opposite ends thereof, as hereinafter fully shown and described, whereby a very convenient article is obtained, and one which may be manufactured at a, cost not greatly exceeding that of the fruit-knife alone.

The liandle A of the device may be of any desired or suitable form, with a single spring, B, secured within it by two rivets, a a, near its center, said spring being of such a shape that one part, b, will be nearly straight at the edge of the handle A, extending to o`ne end thereof, as shown clearly in Fig. l. This straight part b of the spring is in contact with the inner end of the fruit-blade C, which is or should be of silver, to avoid tarnishing or corrosion by the acid ot' the fruit. The other part, c, of

the spring B is curved or extends obliquely from the part b,"near one rivet a, toward the opposite edge of the handle A, near the end opposite to Where the blade Gis attached. This position of the part o ot the spring relatively with the part b forms a space, cl, in the handle to receive the nut-pick D, against the inner end of which the part c of the spring B bears or acts, as will be fully understood by referringV to Fig. 1. This form of the spring also admits of a space, e, being in the handle to receive a part of the fruit-blade O when closed. By this arrangement it will be seen that I ain enabled to combine the fruit-blade and the nut-pick in one handle and with a single spring. The nut-piek and fruit-blade could not be arranged with a single spring to open and close at the sa me edge of the handle, like the blades of an ordinary pocket-knife at opposite ends of the handle, as the fruit-blade and nut-pick are much thicker than knifeblades, :ind would not spring or slide past each other. The only way the result can be attained is shown by my invention-to wit, having the spring B made ot' such a shape as to admit of the fruit-blade being at one edge of the handle and the nut-pick at the other edge.

l claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- As au improved article of manufacture, a combined fruit-knife and nut-pick composed of a fruit-blade, O, and nut-pick D, placed in one and the same handle, A, at opposite ends thereof, and arranged relatively with a spring, B, of such a form as to act upon bot-h the blade and pick and admit of the same opening and closing at opposite edges of the handle, substantially as described.

GEORGE MAYLAND.

Witnesses:

M. M. LIVINGSTON, C. L.'TO1 LIEF. 

